At the first World Peace Celebration in 1987 in Kansas City, Tadodaho Leon Shenandoah, leader of the Onondaga Nation, told Bob Berkebile, BNIM founding principle emeritus, that he needed to create a symbol representing the heart spirit he felt in Kansas City.
Three years and hundreds of volunteer hours later, Berkebile completed the Heart Forest, a 2,000-tree living landmark near the intersection of North Brightwell Road and N.W. 104th Street.
“This is about caring for your neighbor, for other citizens, for the land (and) for this place that we call the heart of America,” Berkebile told KCUR’s Up To Date. “Like nature, we’re all interconnected and interdependent. Let’s act like it.”…